Colorful paintings designed by visual storyteller Trena McNabb will be displayed at the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences’ Nature Art Gallery beginning First Friday, June 5 through Sunday, August 2.

RALEIGH — Hikers, lace up your boots and get ready to journey through the Triangle’s extensive nature trails during the second annual Triangle Volksmarch on Saturday, June 6, from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. This self-paced hike for all ages celebrates National Trails Day and is hosted by the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences, the North Carolina Museum of Art, North Carolina State University, Raleigh Parks, Recreation and Cultural Resources, and William B. Umstead State Park.

RALEIGH — A Victorian-era scientist and his young American assistant take a test run in their Iron Mole drilling machine and end up in a strange underground labyrinth ruled by a species of giant telepathic lizard-bird and full of cavemen, cavewomen, and prehistoric monsters. Yup. They’re in it deep now! You can be too, when the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences shows “At the Earth’s Core” on Friday, June 5 at 7pm.

RALEIGH — North Carolina Potter Ben Owen III will give two live pottery demonstrations and a presentation at the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences on Friday, May 15 to celebrate the opening of the Museum’s newest special exhibition, Dig it! The Secrets of Soil.

RALEIGH — In the past half-century, humans have punched through the stratosphere, walked on the moon, and lived continuously in orbit. In the coming decades, our unquenchable curiosity will take our species beyond the cradle of Earth to touch the face of another world. Join us at the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences on Thursday evening, April 30, for a multi-dimensional look at the next giant leap in this incredible journey … Mars!